L-R: EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, Morocco's General Affairs and Governance Minister Mohamed Najib Boulif, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Japanese Finance Minister Koriki Jojima, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde, and Djibouti's Finance Minister Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh pose during a photo session for the two-day conference on disaster prevention and development issues in Sendai on October 10, 2012, as part of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Pre-emptive measures to reduce damage and save lives when natural disaster strikes were top of the agenda at the two-day conference on October 9-10. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/GettyImages)